Dedication

Preface

List of Participants

Conference Photograph

Contents of Poster Paper Proceedings

1. INTRODUCTION

Introductory overview

J.

2. STELLAR DISTANCES

The Hipparcos results

C. Turon

Review of CCD parallax measurements

C. C. Dahn

Stellar distances by the Baade-Wesselink method

G. P. Di Benedetto

3. STELLAR ANGULAR DIAMETERS AND RADII

Stellar angular diameter measurements by interferometry

J. Davis

Astrometry Using Interferometry at Optical Wavelengths

K. J. Johnston

D. J. Hutter

J. A. Benson

N. M. Elias II

J. T. Armstrong

D. Mozurkewich

T. A. Pauls

C. A. Hummel

Lunar occultation measurements of stellar angular diameters

A. Richichi

Stellar radii

M. Scholz

4. STELLAR FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS

The visual and infrared flux calibrations

C. Megessier

Review of the ultraviolet flux calibration

J. W. Kruk

The bolometric luminosities of stars

R. C. Bless

J. W. Percival

The colours of the Sun

B. J. Taylor

The ISO-SWS flux standard stars: synthetic spectra and observations

N. S. van der Bliek

P. W. Morris

B. Vandenbussche

L. B. F. M. Waters

P. Zaal

R. A. Bell

B. Gustafsson

K. Eriksson

Th. de Graauw

UV energy distributions of active cool stars

C. Morossi

M. Franchini

M. L. Malagnini

5. STELLAR MASSES AND SURFACE GRAVITIES

Precise stellar mass and mass-luminosity data

J.

Interferometric measurements of binaries

H. A. McAlister

Determining the masses of white dwarfs in magnetic cataclysmic variables from x-ray observations

K. Wu

M. Cropper

G. Ramsay

Empirical surface gravities

P. F. L. Maxted

6. THE STELLAR EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE SCALE

Cool star empirical temperature scales

M. S. Bessell

The effective temperatures of hot stars

P. A. Crowther

The stellar temperature scale from angular diameters and flux distributions

A. J. Booth

Stellar effective temperatures through the infrared flux method

C. Megessier

Tests of effective temperature-colour relations

R. A. Bell

7. STELLAR ABUNDANCES

Review of abundances for mid-Teff stars

P. E. Nissen

The broadening of metallic lines in cool stars

S. D. Anstee

B. J. O'Mara

J. E. Ross

Abundances of the elements in the halo stars-interaction between observation and theory

M. Spite

Abundance anomalies in globular clusters

G. S. Da Costa

Stellar parameters in the bulge cluster NGC 6553

B. Barbuy

S. Ortolani

E. Bica

A. Renzini

M. D. Guarnieri

8. STELLAR ATMOSPHERES

Non-LTE line blanketed atmospheres for hot stars

D. J. Hillier

Progress on model atmospheres and line data

R. L. Kurucz

Atmosphere models for very low mass stars, brown dwarfs and exoplanets

I. Baraffe

F. Allard

Parameter identification - a new way of assessing errors in stellar atmosphere analysis

R. Wehrse

Ph. Rosenau

Atmospheric motions and granulation in cool stars-observations and theory

P. L. Cottrell

Chromospheres, activity and magnetic fields

Yu. N. Gnedin

Pulsating stellar atmospheres

D. D. Sasselov

What do we do when models don't fit? On model atmospheres and real stellar spectra

B. Gustafsson

9. STELLAR OSCILLATIONS AND PULSATIONS

Observing solar-like oscillations

H. Kjeldsen

T. R. Bedding

Constraints on stellar interior physics from helioseismology

J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

Bulge δ Scuti stars in the MACHO database

D. Minniti

C. Alcock

D. R. Alves

T. S. Axelrod

A. C. Becker

D. P. Bennett

K. H. Cook

K. C. Freeman

K. Griest

M. J. Lehner

S. L. Marshall

B. A. Peterson

P. J. Quinn

M. R. Pratt

A. W. Rodgers

C. W. Stubbs

W. Sutherland

A. Tomaney

T. Vandehei

D. Welch

Properties of Cepheids and long-period variables

P. R. Wood

RR Lyrae variables

G. Bono

M. Marconi

10. STELLAR MODELS VERSUS OBSERVATIONS

The evolution of massive stars

A. Maeder

Evolution of intermediate mass stars

C. Chiosi

Theory of low mass stars, brown dwarfs and extra-solar giant planets

G. Chabrier

I. Baraffe

11. STELLAR INTERIORS

Rotation: a fundamental parameter of massive stars

N. Langer

A. Heger

J. Fliegner

The effect of rotation on RGB surface abundances

C. Charbonnel

The importance of helium and metals diffusion in stars

C. R. Proffitt

12. EVOLVED STARS

Non-variable horizontal-branch stars

R. T. Rood

NLTE analyses of PG 1159 stars: constraints for the structure and evolution of post-AGB stars

S. Dreizler

K. Werner

T. Rauch

U. Heber

I. N. Reid

L. Koesterke

The Asymptotic Giant Branch

J. C. Lattanzio

C. A. Frost

Cool white dwarfs: atmosphere, cooling and galactic implications

G. Chabrier

Theory, observation and experiment: stellar hydrodynamics

D. Arnett

Summary and review: Interaction of observations and theory of stellar interiors

S. D. Kawaler

13. STELLAR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION

Stellar chemical evolution

J. E. Norris

Chemical evolution of galaxies---challenges for stellar astronomy

E. M. Sadler

14. STELLAR AGES

New model atmosphere analysis of cool white dwarfs: a revised luminosity function and constraints on the age of the Galaxy

S. K. Leggett

P. Bergeron

M. T. Ruiz

Hipparcos subdwarfs and globular cluster ages: towards reliable absolute ages

F. Pont

M. Mayor

C. Turon

Globular cluster ages: are they converging?

D. A. VandenBerg

15. CONCLUSION

Achievements and prospects

L. E. Cram

Discussion

INDEXES

Author Index

Subject Index

Object Index